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I need to lose 9st+! Help!

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Modestandatinybitsexy · 29/04/2020 11:09

Have you done this? How have you done this?

I'm 5'8" and 19st.
I know I need to eat less and move more.

I have small children and I'm still breastfeeding. Apart from the standard chasing a toddler I'm pretty sedentary. I do all the cooking, not terribly unhealthy food but probably much too much of it.

Help me give myself a kick up my huge arse please!!

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UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme · 11/12/2020 06:22

freaked not freeked

alphaechokiwi · 13/12/2020 08:17

@UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme I had the same a year or two ago (I'm 48). Very heavy periods, lasting a long time, sometimes more frequent. It was a surprise because I like you, was expecting less frequent and lighter periods. Mine have stopped completely now due to breast cancer treatment, so I can't really advise. But there's tonnes of great perimenopause advise on the boards here.
I'm 100.2kg today. On track to be under 100kg by Christmas.
Hope you are all having a great weekend

Bellringer · 14/12/2020 18:46

Health emergency last year, not v mobile but lost 4stone on low fat diet. No meat, lots of beans. Going to ease up a bit now and try do do same again next year. Can now swim and walk better. Downside is disturbing baggy skin but worth it. Slow and steady working for me.

Storywriter · 14/12/2020 19:08

I discovered how to lose weight by accident when I changed my diet due to health reasons. I gave up / vastly reduced all foods which could possibly contain growth hormones. I did it very gradually as these are in so many things (non organic meat, all forms of dairy, farmed fish, etc.) - they are basically hormones which instruct your cells to grow. Sometimes they're there naturally - e.g. in milk, which is designed to make small creatures big, although this is greatly increased in dairy animals due to how much of the year they spend either pregnant or lactating, and sometimes they're added deliberately to increase food indusry profits by artificially increasing the volume of product e.g. in much non organic meat and chicken and sometimes it's added to animal feed and fish food, or even injected into animals intended for the food trade. I thought I had a very healthy diet before. It's been hard to avoid these hormones entirely and I've not always succeeded completely but as soon as I started to avoid them the weight did literally fall off. If you had told me before that this would happen I wouldn't have believed you.

UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme · 15/12/2020 07:08

alphaechokiwi well done - good luck with getting under 100 by Christmas, I'm sure you'll easily do that! Thanks for sharing your experience, maybe it is age not weight loss. I've been reading about estrogen stored in visceral fat being released when women lose a lot of weight and causing hormonal disturbances. I guess it could be either, or both! Its weird as I had no "symptoms" that I was about to have a period, just started bleeding heavily but no bloating or stomach cramps before... Weird. Still bleeding, day 6... Doctor's appointment tomorrow (abroad so I have a gynocologist I go to directly).
I hope you're well now and the cancer treatment was a sucess?

Down to 92.4 kg today - all the bleeding probably helps but I could do without it tbh...

Welcome to the thread Storywriter and Bellringer.

alphaechokiwi · 20/12/2020 06:22

@UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme thank you. I finished treatment about a year ago. But I'll be taking tamoxifen which is an oestrogen blocker for 10 years. I hope your period has eased up now. Well done on your loss.
I'm 99.0 kgs today. Mini goal of getting under 100 achieved. Now I need to try to figure out how to manage Christmas.... I think I'll be happy with maintaining my current weight over the festive period.
Welcome @Bellringer and @Storywriter

UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme · 30/12/2020 19:00

How is everyone doing? Did people with "by Christmas" goals hit them? Are most people off work and on hiatus til they go back, or sticking to their usual way of eating?

alphaechokiwi · 30/12/2020 19:21

Hi @UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme - I hope you had a lovely Christmas?
I got to 98.9kg on Christmas morning....14.5kgs lost since I started in September. I've taken a few days 'off' but I'm back to intermittent fasting today. I'll weigh on Sunday morning as usual, hoping to have maintained since Christmas day. Looking at my next mini goal which is getting under 95kg. How about you?

UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme · 31/12/2020 09:08

alphaechokiwi hi! Thats fantastic, well done on getting comfortably under 100! That's a big milestone I think.

I've been back at work since 27th (24/7/365 job so we arrange between us to have either Christmas or new year period off, nobody gets the whole lot). So its easier to avoid going wildly off track. I've also been walking everyday while off (harder sometimes to fit everything in on work days). The kids gave me chocolate for Christmas, andI ate that, as well as Christmas deserts and Baileys coffess... Grin but stuck to my intermittent fasting.

I saw 89.3kg on the scales this morning! "Breaking through" into the 80s is a mini milestone, but 84 is my next "goal" as I'll be out of the obese BMI range then.

Got a few more new clothes too, which I'm happy with Blush ordering sale items from brands who's rangesI didn't used to fit into is so tempting! Blush

alphaechokiwi · 01/01/2021 09:19

Very well done @UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme - it's a great achievement to break through to the '80s, especially over Christmas. Enjoy your new clothes!

Winningatseesaw · 02/01/2021 02:52

Well done everyone for being losers over December. I almost maintained - put on 0.8kgs but am happy with that. Just keen to keep going now with the weight loss frame of mind. Getting back into it and not letting off track days (new year) get me down. Just treating them as one off days and moving on.

Zebracat · 02/01/2021 22:29

Hi everyone.
Weighed myself today for the 1st time in ages and I have gained over 5 kilos. I’m just over 105 k, and it is that last 5that seems to cause problems. Really struggling with my back, with rashes, and with gout. Just feel crap. My biggest clothes are tight, so grim.
I know it’s no good feeling sorry for myself. I need to make changes and have a plan.

alphaechokiwi · 03/01/2021 06:13

99.4kg this morning. Meaning I gained 0.5kg over Christmas and New Year. Not unexpected. I'm relieved I didn't gain more. It's hard getting back to healthier ways after the Christmas splurge. Good luck everyone

Therunecaster · 03/01/2021 15:01

Can I join. I lost 2.5 stone at the beginning of lockdown and I've put it all back on. I'm 47, 5ft 7 and 18.7 stone. I'm breathless, terrified of getting Covid and I've been drinking far too much.

Winningatseesaw · 07/01/2021 08:40

Everyone welcome!
Hope everyone is having a good week. Im back on Friday weigh but have done some sneaky weigh ins to find NOTHING is moving. Hope it all miraculously comes off today for tomorrow's weigh in !

Winningatseesaw · 07/01/2021 21:45

STS this week. Devastated! Going to try and drink more water as I've eased off on that.

alphaechokiwi · 10/01/2021 07:21

Morning everyone, I hope you had a good week. Welcome @Therunecaster .
@Winningatseesaw I'm sorry you sts, that's happened to me once or twice, it's very demoralising. I hope the extra water does the trick.
I'm weighing in at 98kg today. My next mini goal is getting my BMI under 35. That's around 95kg.

Angliski · 10/01/2021 18:57

Hello all, back on post chrimbo. I didn’t go mad but I did have the odd cookie etc here and there. Down to 13 st 10 so that’s a total loss of 1st 5lb so far. Long way still to go but....

Next goal is to get the needle nearer to 13 than 14.

UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme · 12/01/2021 06:53

Hi everyone! Ive stayed the same for two weeks now - or rather swinging between 89 and 90kg first thing in the mornings despite sticking to exactly the same thing that had be losing really pretty fast until two weeks ago. I know plateus are normal, weight loss isn't linear, and I was possibly losing a bit too fast, tied in with my period going crazy, who knows... but I'm still objectively obese (BMI 31) so do need to lose more weight!

I've been doing intermittent fasting since July, so have decided to mix things up today and just ate breakfast for the first time in nearly 6 months - big bowl of porridge. I have been eating from 1pm to 7pm ... I feel horribly bloated now Blush oh well... lets see what happens!

Seems like a lot of us are staying the same so maybe its nature telling us to hibernate Grin its -11 c here...

alphaechokiwi · 17/01/2021 07:52

Hi everyone,
Fingers crossed for those plateauing.... it's rough. Hopefully things start moving in the right direction for you soon. Welcome back @Angliski I hope everything is back on track for you post Christmas.
I'm 96.8kg today. I'm pleased with that, on track to get my BMI under 35 in the next few weeks. I'm ECV, so it it extra important.

UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme · 18/01/2021 07:23

alphaechokiwi well done!

Still on my Plateau here... 89kg which is exactly 14 stone - no change in 3 weeks despite doing the same things as when losing 1-1.5 kg per week... Walked 9 hilly miles yesterday, eating 2 good one course meals per day, no snacks... humpf.

Hopefully will see some movement next week or the week after once my period has been and gone, otherwise will have to try and thonk of something sustainable that I can change - swapping the time of day I eat at achieved precisely nothing.

I've been focussing on my health with intermittent fasting and healthy eating for exactly 6 months today. I weigh 30kg less than my original weigh in, but that was middle of the day fully dressed at work, and today was first thing in the morning, so my genuine weight loss is about 28kg in 6 months.

Still need to lose about 18-20kg to be a healthy weight although in all honesty I feel perfectly okay "in myself" and appearance wise at this weight especially with all the walking I'm doing... Will continue though, for long term health and partly because its probably better to get the weight off before the dreaded menopause hits properly...

Hope I can get off this stupid plateau and hit a healthy BMI by July...

Twinkie01 · 18/01/2021 07:34

Stop eating processed food, only snack on unprocessed food, buy a portion control plate and start exercising for 30 minutes 5 days a week. C25K or 30 day shred will be enough.

Don't cut anything in terms of food groups, you just need a healthy lifestyle you can stick to and not a diet or you're setting yourself up to fail or put the weight back on.

UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme · 18/01/2021 08:35

Twinkie01 jumping on support threads and posing your generic advice in an imperious tone without actually reading the posts from the people you appear to be addressing just puts people's backs up. You are ignoring what people are already doing which just makes you sound like a tosser.

Labobo · 18/01/2021 08:44

The best thing you can do is stop snacking if you snack.

Eat three meals a day. For now, cut out all processed foods - biscuits, low fat yoghurts, crisps and savoury snacks. Just eat home made food. The main reason for this is that processed foods can trigger massive cravings that are not real hunger but feel like it.

Don't 'diet' for now. Just focus on healthy eating. That means protein at every meal, plenty of veg - go for 8 portions of fruit and veg a day - 3 of fruit and 5 of veg.
Increase your lean protein intake. It really does keep you full for longer - eggs, chicken, lean red meats, white fish, grilled back bacon etc.

Move. The brilliant thing about being very overweight is you are a walking gym. Every time you move you are doing a serious weight lifting challenge.

Sounds daft but last year I realised what the best exercise in the world is - it's squats. The reason is, they train the muscles that lift the bum from the seat so they encourage you to jump up more. Doorbell rings - you jump to get it. Phone rings, same. Kids shout, you jump to find them instead of hollering from the sofa. Squats make you more active. Start today with a solid upright chair, just get up from it and sit down in it without stopping as many times as you can. Tomorrow do one more etc. Increase by one each day until you can do forty so easily it's not an issue. Then do squats without the chair!

Add simple movements to everyday tasks - do sumo squats while cleaning teeth or just shimmy or windmill your arms while waiting for the kettle to boil.

You will get results quickly.

Labobo · 18/01/2021 08:50

Another thing that massively helps is to make a list of small treats that aren't food. So if you are stressed and need a quick fix mood-booster you choose one from your list: play your favourite upbeat song from your teenage years on Spotify, You tube or Alexa; watch a funny sketch, put on a spritz of the perfume you normally save for going out; have a 3-5 minute yoga, affirmations or meditation session, paint your toenails, buy a magazine (health or sports ones are good to motivate you)

Every time you make a good choice, really reinforce it. Air pump the sky or say 'yes' to yourself. Sounds mad, but it's a way of telling yourself that you can do this and it makes it easier. Saying no to chocolate and then lifting your hands in the air like a gold medallist and saying 'yes' gives you the dopamine hit that the chocolate would have given you. Do this alone. Wink

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